The Senior Deployment Analyst works with stakeholders – both leadership and subject matter experts from the business and IT – to assist in the successful implementation of business solutions. This position facilitates and manages activities in the deployment of systems solutions as a member of the Deployment Team. This entails the following key activities:
- Managing project go-lives including site readiness, support, and communications
- Performing risk and contingency planning for system go-lives
- Planning and managing pre go-live Business Simulations to confirm solution
- Managing transition of the solution to the long term production support team
- Defining and monitoring solution stabilization metrics after go-live
Associate’s Degree required in Technology, Business, Engineering or related field, Bachelor's Degree preferred
- At least 4 years of experience with SAP or equivalent ERP system including at least 6 months of experience with Deployment/Cutover activities, SAP preferred
- 1 year of experience with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) required, advanced Excel skills including v-lookup preferred
- Project Management experience using Microsoft Project and/or Microsoft Project Server, 2 years preferred
- Good leadership skills in the following areas: communication, change management, technology, and general business analysis
- Ability to translate technical concepts into various forms of documentation
- Ability to develop an understanding of business processes
- Understanding of the technology architecture and infrastructure for IT solutions
- Ability to understand the value of IT solutions within the context of Client's business environment
- Negotiation and influence management skills
- Ability to lead people and project work, and interact with varying levels of management
- Ability to work within a virtual team environment, including virtual resource management
- Advanced presentation, organization and facilitation skills
- Experience managing a matrix project team (team without your direct reporting responsibility authority)
- Experience working on multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience with project planning, scheduling, tracking and reporting
- Experience with change management, project risk mitigation, and issue management
- Proven leadership skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Successful track record of managing large IT deployments
- Ability to work effectively in a high-pressure environment
- Must be able to work additional hours and weekends as required by project deployment activities
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time domestically and internationally
Work with blueStone, one of the leading IT Staffing and Consulting companies in the United States. As a result of our rapid growth, we are constantly searching for talented technical professionals with all levels of information technology and communication skills.
